Lexicology of english language

CONTENTS
Introduction ……………………………………………. 4
The Object of Lexicology………………………….…… 5
The Connection of Lexicology with Phonetics,
Stylistics, History of the Language and Grammar……. 5
Lexicology and Sociolinguistics…………………………6
The Sociolinguistic Process of Borrowing into the
British Variant of English……………………………..10
The Sociolinguistic Process of Borrowing into the
American Variant of English………………………….11
Lexicology and Suprasegmental Phonology…………….21
Lexicological Phonetics………………………………....24
The Prosody of Enantiosemy…………………………....33
Word Meaning………………………………………… .36
Types of Meaning……………………………………. .40
Word Meaning and Meaning in Morphemes………… .45
Word Meaning and Motivation………………………. .48
Change of Meaning…………………………………… 51
Meaning and Polysemy……………………………….. 56
Polysemy and Homonymy…………………………… . 62
Exercises……………………………………………… 68
Word Meaning in Syntagmatics and Paradigmatics….. 72
Meaning Relations in Paradigmatics and Semantic
Classification of Words………………………………77
Exercises………………………………………………..80
Antonyms……………………………………………. 82
Exercises………………………………………………. 83
Synonymy…………………………………………… 84
Exercises…………………………………………….. 83
Word-Groups and Phraseological Units……………… 84
Some Basic Features of Word Groups………………. 94
Structure of Word Groups…………………………… 97
Meaning of Word Groups………………………………98
Independence of Structure and Meaning
in Word-Groups………………………………………. .102
Word-Building……………………………………….. 123
Affixation……………………………………………….129
Conversion.……………………………………………. 143
Compounding…………………………………………. 155
Abbreviation, Clipping, Blending…………………….. 172
Some of the Minor Types of Modern Word-building…..175
Exercises……………………………………………….. 176
Phraseology………………………………………….... 180
Phraseological Units (Set Expressions)……………… 184
Exercises………………………………………………. 179
Stylistics of the Word………………………………... . 184
Exercises………………………………………………. 200
Stylistics of the Words………………………………… 204
Exercises………………………………………………. 208
The Etymology of the English Vocabulary…………… 213
Borrowings……………………………………………. 217
Interrelations Between Native and
Borrowed Elements…………………………………….224
The Enrichment (Replenishment) of the
English Word-Stock……………………………………228
Ways and Means of Enriching the Word Stock……….. 234
Exercises………………………………………………. 231
Variants and Dialects of the English Language…………247
The Main Variants of the English Language……………239